On Monday morning, the highest "X" class flare was recorded on the Sun. This is the first flare of such a category observed since the beginning of February.
Modern.az reports that this was reported by the Russian Institute of Applied Geophysics.
On March 30, at 07:19 Baku time, an X1.5 class flare lasting 49 minutes was recorded in the X-ray range in sunspot group 4405 (S25E45).
The last such powerful flare (X4.2) occurred on February 4 in active region number 4366. That region subsequently broke the 21st-century record for the number of M and X-class flares on the Sun.
Sergey Bogachov, head of the Solar Astronomy and Heliophysical Instrumentation Laboratory of the Space Plasma Physics Department at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, had previously told TASS that there is a possibility of 5-10 more flares of the highest class occurring by the end of the year.
Depending on the power of X-ray radiation, solar flares are divided into five classes: A, B, C, M, and X. The weakest A0.0 class is equivalent to a radiation power of 10 nanowatts per square meter in Earth's orbit. With each subsequent letter, this power increases tenfold. As a rule, flares are accompanied by the ejection of solar plasma, and these plasma clouds can cause magnetic storms when they reach Earth. (TASS)
